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Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Calls on Tunisians to Defy Ennahda Party and “Support Your
Sharia”
Ayman al-Zawahiri
June 10, 2012
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On June 10, 2012, Al-Qaida’s As-Sahab Media Foundation released a message
from Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri in which he called upon Tunisians to “Incite your
people on a popular uprising to support the Sharia and affirm Islam and rule
with the Qur’an.” Zawahiri made this plea in response to the Ennahda party’s
decision to decision to “not demand the Islamic Sharia… but be the source of
legislation in order to reach a reconcilable constitution.” He went on to say,
“They are inventing an ‘Islam’ that pleases the American He compared the
present situation in Tunisia to historical conflicts in the Muslim world between
moderate and conservative forces, religious and secular forces, and foreign and
local forces. In his defense of Islam’s rightful place in politics, Zawahiri
criticized Islamic scholar Ali Abdulrazzaq and commended the Imam of
Tunisia, Shaykh Muhammad Al-Khader Hussein.
O’Our People in Tunisia: Support Your Sharia
“In the name of Allah, and praise due to Allah, and prayer and peace upon the messenger
of Allah and upon his family, companions and allies.”
“Muslim brothers everywhere, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings, and
thereafter.”
“The leaders of the Islamic Ennahda Party in Tunisia declared that they would not demand the
Islamic Sharia to be the source of legislation in order to reach a reconcilable constitution. Have
you seen a hospital that has no relation to treating patients, or a pharmacy that declares it has
no reason to sell medicine, or an army declares it has no fighting affairs, or a communist party
declaring it does not advocate Communism, or a democratic or secularist group that declare they
do not seek to apply [such ideologies]?”
“You have not seen that. What is amazing is seeing the leadership of a group that relates itself to
Islam and then says it does not advocate ruling by it. A leadership that alleges to belong to what
they call the illuminated, moderate Islam. Let them call themselves whatever they wish of names,
but they oppose the clear texts in the Qur’an, the nonnegotiable [texts] of the Sunnah and the
consensus of the Ummah. They represent a symptom from the symptoms of our modern-day
diseases, and a face from the faces of our ideological defeat, and a phenomenon from the
phenomena of cultural passiveness and doctrinal dependency.”
They are inventing an ‘Islam’ that pleases the American Department of State, the European
Union and the Gulf [regime] scholars. An ‘Islam’ according to demand; it allows gambling
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clubs, nude beaches, usurious banks, secular laws, and submission to international legitimacy.
An ‘Islam’ without jihad, without enforcing the good and prohibiting the malic, without
[enforcing] ‘loyalty [to believers] amd enmity [to disbelievers],’ or one [allowing] debate and
clarity.”
“An ‘Islam’ that said what Napoleon did not when he entered Egypt. When he entered it he
tricked the Egyptians [alleging] that he respected the Sharia, and he founded a council
[formed] by the biggest scholars to rule with what he called ‘Cabinet.’ But the Egyptian
public did not believe the trick, so they referred to this council as ‘the toilet’ as they habitually
use sarcasm in resistance.”
“As for those [leaders in Tunisia], they have gone beyond Napoleon and spoken publicly about
what ought not be public; they thus said ‘no Sharia or Qur’an, no Sunnah or consensus over
ruling, in constitution or in the laws, and even the principles—or rulings—of the Sharia will not
be mentioned as a source for legislation and law. It is the ‘middle, moderate, illuminated Islam,’
whose legislator offered Fatwas allowing Muslims to fight in the American Army in Afghanistan
so his career promotion would not be affected, and to bring the ‘criminals,’ the Mujahideen, to
American justice in Guantanamo and the underground prisons. And when the Kemalist
secularists alleged that they would end the Ottoman caliphate for the benefit of Turkey after
World War I, Ahmad Shawqi scandalized them by saying [Poetry] and when Ali Abdulrazzaq
wrote the book, Islam and Origins of Rulings, the scholars confronted him.”
[Narrator]
“And the conclusion Ali Abdulrazzaq came out with is summarized in the conclusion of
the book with the following words:
‘The Islamic religion disavows this caliphate the Muslims have come to know, and it is not a
part of the religious plans, nay, nor [a part of] the judiciary or other governance jobs and state
institutions. But, all these plans are wholly political and religion has no relation to them; as he
neither knew them nor denied them, nor did he order them nor ban them, but left them to us to
take back to the rulings of rationality and experiences of nations and political principles.’”
[Shaykh Muhammad Rashid Reza—may Allah have mercy on him—Al-Manar Magazine]
“The readers of Al-Manar, from the 26th issue of Al-Manar Magazine, learned the news on the
boldness of Shaykh Ali Abdulrazzaq who was from Al-Azhar scholars and from the justices of
Sharia courts, in releasing a book titled, Islam and Origins of Rulings, in which he tried to
demolish the Islamic Sharia in principle and [offered] absolute freedom for Muslims to choose
for themselves whatever they please of Sharia articles and ruling systems without being tied to
a Godly text, or Sunnah of the prophet, or the guidance of ancestors or the efforts of an Imam
who follows the texts. And they learned that we were the first to rise to falsify this book and
extinguish its Kufr basis and misguidance, and incite the scholars of Al-Azhar and others
to respond to it, and thus the High Scholars Committee decided to consider this book in what
opposes the religion, and ruled to delete his name from the Al-Azhar scholars and necessitated
firing him from the Sharia judiciary and never offering another government job to him.”
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[Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri]
“And from the most prominent [persons] who confronted him, the honorable Imam of Tunisia,
Shaykh Muhammad Al-Khader Hussein, Shaykh of Al-Azhar, and Shaykh Muhammad AlTaher Ibn Aashoor, Shaykh of Al-Zaitunah Mosque, may Allah have mercy on the both of
them.”
[Narrator]
“Shaykh Muhammad Al-Khader Hussein, Shaykh of Al-Azhar, of Tunisian origin, may Allah
have mercy on him, said: ‘Should the Islamic states do what the Western states did, of
marginalizing politics from religion, is the opinion of he who believes that religion has no
authority over politics, and this is what is being marketed by the sect that seeks to cast away
the truth of Islam so it can be on the same degree of other spiritual religions whose people
cast away from politics, and then they polish this degree [of Islam] in any
way they desire, and Islam would thus digress; as if no Qur’an has been revealed, or [a
prophet] prayer and peace upon him sent, or caliphs waged jihad for the cause of Allah, or
scholars who spent nights learning the origins from the sources and the rulings from their
origins.’ To what he said: ‘And this proves to you that he who advocates dividing religion from
politics is as if he envisioned another religion and called it Islam.’ To what he said: ‘separating
the state from religion is the depreciation of most of the faith, and Muslims would not approach
that except after they become ‘non- Muslims.’”
[Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri]
“The former authored the book, Critique to the Book, Islam and Origins of Ruling, and the
latter authored the book Scientific Critique to the Book, Islam and Origins of Ruling.
And after Ali Abdulrazzaq’s inkling was defeated in Egypt, its [inkling] returned and grew for
those who adhere to his ideology in Tunisia of knowledge, jihad and resistance, and
they [adherents] even added to that; if Ali Abdulrazzaq said ‘no governance in Islam,’ then
those [adherents] say ‘no Islam in governance.’”
“And when Sadat said that there is no religion in politics and no politics in religion, a group
of scholars confronted him, and among them were Salah Abu Ismail—may Allah have mercy on
him—and I attended a lecture for him in Cairo University, which he presented by the entrance
of its main hall, he attacked Sadat and his saying. And then when the State National Security
High Court was held to prosecute the suspects in the big jihad case, the defense demanded him
to testify, and he gave a brave, strong and bold testimony throughout
two days, and from what he said: ‘Sadat, by saying no religion in politics and no politics in
religion, has washed his hands of Islam.’”
“The prosecution commented by saying that it preserves the right to direct charges at the
witness for inciting overthrow of the regime, and he did not care about what the prosecution
said, and he entailed this great testimony in his famous book titled, The Testimony. If Sadat
found who would confront him in Egypt, he [Salah Abu Ismail] found who would revive his
saying in Tunisia.”
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“O’ honorable, free and protective ones in Tunisia, the masks have fell and the faces have
been unveiled, so rise up to support your Sharia. Incite your people on a popular uprising to
support the Sharia and affirm Islam and rule with the Qur’an. Alert the Muslim, defiant Tunisian
people toward what is being fabricated against it and intended toward it. Spread between people
and roam the cities and villages, and fill the streets and towns, and alert the mosques, schools,
universities and Muslim societies.”
“Tell the Muslim people in Tunisia that your Sharia is being buried alive just as it was buried
in Turkey, and Ali Abdulrazzaq who was defeated by Muhammad Al-Khader Hussein and
Muhammad Al-Taher Ibn Aashoor—may Allah have mercy on them—has been revived in
their homes. Bu-Raqibah who fights Islam and allies with France and is hostile to Hijab and the
Islamic Sharia, is bringing out those who [purportedly] belong to Islam from the grave of his
feeble bones and meager body.”
“O’ free ones in Tunisia, O’ its honorable ones, O’ people of zeal, O’ supporters of Islam and
soldiers of Sharia, support your Qur’an and defend the Sunnah of your prophet, prayer and
peace upon him, and never accept an alternative to Sharia.”
“And our last prayer is praise due to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and Allah’s prayer and peace
upon our master, Muhammad and upon his family and companions, and peace be
upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.”
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